Archives - 24 February 2016, Wednesday

“Visa is pleased to have Golden Village as one of our first key merchants to implement Visa Checkout. Visa Checkout addresses some of the problems faced by online shoppers by reducing the number of steps required for them to complete their online purchases, thus enhancing the entire s...

My favourite Caramel Macchiato at Starbucks Starbucks in Singapore has launched three new variations of the popular Starbucks Macchiato, two new blends and two collections of merchandise. I remember the days of drinking at least a cuppa Caramel Macchiato every weekday morning before s...

While details of the full-line-up is still up in the air, Amuse Entertainment has brought in heavy weights like ONE OK ROCK, Perfume and flumpool to our sunny shores. Their vast list of artists also includes FLOW, Skoop on Somebody and WEAVER, all of whom have added amazing tracks to ...

No one wants to be an engineer anymore. Here are the reasons: 1. Low pay. 2. Low prestige. 3. Engineering faculties/departments are dumping grounds. (What’s the cut off point now?) This is the death spiral. 4. Study so hard for what? The skills needed to get high pay are just: ability...

5 – Lock up all phones before meal time That’s exactly what we did at our recent team lunch at one of our house. To test the effectiveness of a gathering without our phones (and all of us being the social media addicts) we had all our phones locked up before we started our yummy buffe...

Last year, Malaysia Famous Fried Porridge located in a coffeeshop along Macpherson Road rocked Singapore’s hawker scene with a huge bang. They have now moved to Jalan Besar and renamed as “Royal J’s Seafood”, with a much bigger space and ready to serve more delicious cze char items. P...

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So what about salts? Actually, this is a case where soaking in a tub MAY be best. At least according to a paper titled “Dead Sea Bath Salt for the treatment of psoriasis vulgarism.” The researchers treated 30 patients with psoriasis vulgaris, a condition involving rapidly dividing, ov...

To give customers and nanblock collectors a one-stop option to complete your collection, the McDonald’s Food Icons X nanoblocks Limited Edition Collector’s Kits was launched in McDonald’s restaurants in Singapore on 22 February from 11am. There are limited quantities in each restauran...

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So Havelock’s another place which is named after a British dude, Major General Sir Henry Havelock (1795 –1857). And no he was not famous for having lots of locks. He was known as the “Hero of Lucknow” for his military leadership in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Sadly, he died of dysen...

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To Go or Not To Go For Madonna’s Concert? – Anonymous X: of Madonna – a rebel not without a cause? – Five Stars and a Moon: VIRAL RIGHT NOW: ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM GOH’S COMMENTS – Rosalyn Lee: You are not the boss of anyone – New Nationn: Madonna SG concert: S’poreans express grave conce...

To Go or Not To Go For Madonna’s Concert? – Noelle Perera: A note to the Archbishop of Singapore – The Middle Ground: The Madonna and a Madonna – lukeishandsome(dot)com: PAS Malaysia to Catholic Archbishop of Singapore: “Hey, we’re not that different after all!” – The Dark Shadow Shri...

Some time ago, some very creative people came up with nice PG-13 puns involving MRT station names, like this one: But what’s the fun in that? So now, perhaps it’s time for some inappropriate M18 ones for our readers with naughty and creative minds: 1. When you miss your train, you say...

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PR.com: I noticed that you have a huge fan base in Asia and in other parts of the world and now for the last few years, you’ve been crossing over into English language music and breaking into the U.S. and you seem to be doing it through the dance charts rather then the pop charts. Was...

This is not to deny the fact that of the infinite number of characteristics, race is a particularly obvious one since it comes through visually — and the human is a strongly visual animal. Human societies have generally had long traditions of group solidarity where race was used as a ...

If I had to describe it, parenting 4 kids is like moving from crisis to crisis all day with very brief commercial breaks of warm and fuzzy mom moments. Like at any given point, someone will have a problem that needs fixing. Or a situation that requires immediate attention NOW MOM!! Or...

Below is what Wikipedia said about Battle of Tunmen where China showcase her world class naval supremacy. Note, Portuguese then was the MOST powerful naval empire in Europe. Next came the spanish. The navy of portuguese and spanish went downhill following the defeat of Spanish armada....

are now competing to win their category and the L’Iris d’Or Photographer of the Year and Open Photographer of the Year titles plus a share of the $30,000 (USD) grand prize. All winners will also receive the latest digital imaging equipment from Sony. The winners will be announced at t...

Called Starhub to check.. the song is called La Vie C'est Si Bon and No, it is not the same song titled C'est Si Bon by Eartha Kitt or Arielle Bombasle. Apparently, its a song the marketing / Advertising team at Starhub came up with on their own, especially for this ad. They've also m...

They offer treatments to help, but it is really up to yourself to stick to a diet regime. No, I do not mean skipping meals – that is the worst thing you can do! Read those nutritional labels. Not everything that says it is fat-free is good for you. Most of these “health” foods are loa...

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Sooner or later, every parent faces the trauma of Tantrums, and many times, we don’t really know how to react. Advice from the Experts: I put this question to the experts at Chiltern House and Julia Gabriel, and this is what Fiona Walker (CEO of Julia Gabriel for Learning, Chiltern Ho...

ONG KONG, CHINA – – 24 February 2016 – Arrow Electronics, Inc. , (NYSE:ARW ) today announced that it has been named to Fortune magazine’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” for the 16th consecutive year. Arrow again topped the list in the “Wholesalers: Electronics and Office Equipment” ...

Moreover, SmartSensor improves on other solutions with a key advantage. Existing lens-based stabilizers can only correct for vibrations on two axes of motions, the pitch axis and yaw axis, even though the most common type of unwanted shaking during photography actually takes place on ...

Launched in 2009, Tune Talk is a JV between Tony Fernandes’s (Founder, AirAsia) Tune Group and Celcom Axiata. It is the fastest growing mobile prepaid service provider in Malaysia and the region with close to 2 million subscribers. Fun, vibrant and relevant, the brand is quickly becom...

According to Damien, this stall sells the BEST beef kway teow in Singapore. Better than all the rest. So we had to make our pilgrimage down to Toa Payoh to try it. The stall is supposed to be opened till 7pm, so we thought that 2.30pm should be quite a safe time to visit. Lo and Behol...

If you spot a Swede having his afternoon tea, he is doing what they called Fika. A cup of coffee, together with some pastries or sandwiches, it is an activity that Swedes, and many of us, resonates with. I chanced upon the concept of fika when researching for my Scandinavian trip last...

Frozen are both my boys’ first Disney show and especially the songs are their Favourite. They can request to watch the same show each week (as we restrict their tv time) without getting bored. The elder one (4 this year) can tell u what will happen next at each scene. The most epic sc...